Wednesday, 8 June 2016

ROUGH BANK BLUES

My second free afternoon this week and I visited Butterfly conservation's reserve Rough Bank near Stroud.
Lots of small blues about, together with a number of common blues, also spotted a Painted lady but it flew over a barbed wire fence into a field before I could grab a photo!!
The reserve at Rough Bank

Common Blue

Small blue

small blue underside
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